High School Sports Blog

Most of the top of our SportsDayHS Area Top 100 have made (at least initial) decisions on where they want to attend college; of the top 40, only four have yet to make an oral commitment.

The biggest jewel still unaccounted for among Dallas-Fort Worth-area recruits is Euless Trinity linebacker Brian Nance, No. 4 on our list. Nance has started to set up his five official visits, naming Baylor, Oklahoma and USC as definite selections. Nance said that he’s still unsure about the final two choices, and that he’ll make the decision soon after consulting with his father.

The 6-2, 210-pound Nance, who was second-team all-Area last season after getting 174 tackles for the Class 5A Division I runners-up, has an impressive list of offers on the table right now — Arizona, Arkansas, California, LSU, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, TCU, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, UCLA, USC and others.

It’s still questionable whether he or two of Euless Trinity’s other top defenders, DE Polo Manukainiu (No. 13 on the Area 100) and rover Sione Paipa, will see the field against Tyler Lee in Zero Week.

While Nance has been practicing with the first-team defense in practice this week, he’s still rehabbing an off-season knee surgery. Likewise for Manukainiu, who hurt his knee in the offseason as well. Paipa — who horrifically broke both bones in his leg right above his ankle in the Coppell game — turned the same ankle on the final play of Trinity’s first scrimmage. Paipa said that whether he plays will be up to an evaluation by the trainers on Thursday.
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